advisers; of trusting to his memory for facts, dates, and quotations; and of sending manuscripts to the post without reading them over. What he has composed thus rapidly has often been as rapidly printed. His object has been that every Essay should now appear as it probably would have appeared when it was first published, if he had then been allowed an additional day or two to revise the proof-sheets, with the assistance of a good library. CONTENTS THE FIRST VOLUME. PAGK . . . 215 . . MILTON (Aug. 1825) 1 HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY (Sept. 1828) 112 SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY (Jan. 1830) MR. ROBERT MONTGOMERY'S POEMS (April 1830) MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON (June 1830). SOUTHEY'S EDITION OF THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS (Dec. Civil DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS (Jan. 1831) BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON (Sept. 1831) . LORD NUGENTS MEMORIALS OF HAMPDEN (Dec. 1831) 421 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES (April 1832) WAR OF THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN (Jan. 1833) . 519 WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM (Jan. 1834) CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW. MILTON. (August, 1825.) Joannis Miltoni, Angli, de Doctrinâ Christianâ libri duo posthumi. A Treatise on Christian Doctrine, compiled from the Holy Scriptures alone. By JOHN MILTON, translated from the Original by Charles R. Sumner, M.A. &c. &c. 1825. TOWARDS the close of the year 1823, Mr. Lemon, deputy keeper of the state papers, in the course of his researches among the presses of his office, met with a large Latin manuscript. With it were found corrected copies of the foreign despatches written by Milton, while he filled the office of Secretary, and several papers relating to the Popish Trials and the Rye-house Plot. The whole was wrapped up in an envelope, superscribed To Mr. Skinner, Merchant. On examination, the large manuscript proved to be the long lost Essay on the Doctrines of Christianity, which, according to Wood and Toland, Milton finished after the Restoration, and deposited with Cyriac Skinner. Skinner, it is well known, held the same political opinions with his illustrious friend. It is therefore probable, as Mr. Lemon conjectures, that he may have fallen under the suspicions of the B VOL. I. |
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